Fargo, Indiana

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1950 USGS Valeene quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1956 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Vincennes quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1970 USGS Valeene quadrangle1:24000
• 1979 USGS Valeene quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000
• 1993 USGS Valeene quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Fargo between 1999 and 2018, burning about 96 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Ethel
• Greenbrier
• Youngs Creek
• Bacon
• Newton Stewart
• Abydel

Every fire recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fargo: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Orange County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fargo in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Orange County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 450905. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.